Mark Webber has cut short his holiday at home in Australia to take part in a test for the Arrows F1 Formula One team at Silverstone this week.

Webber back for Arrows F1 test

Mark Webber has cut short his holiday at home in Australia to take part in a test for the Arrows F1 Formula One team at Silverstone this week.

Webber (pictured) first drove a Formula One car at Barcelona a month ago and is due to have talks with Arrows management today and to drive at Silverstone on Wednesday and Thursday.

"It's great to be invited back by Arrows," Webber said shortly before his departure from his home in Queanbeyan. "The first test at Barcelona was a phenomenal experience and areal eye-opener. As I said at the time, a Formula One car is so precise, with so much power. It was 10 times everything I'd done previously.

"Now that I've been acquainted first-hand with a Formula One car it will be good to get back in and have another go."

Webber already is booked to drive in the International Formula 3000 Championship this year for expatriate Australian businessman Paul Stoddart's European Formula Racing, which is now the Arrows Junior team.

It was Stoddart who arranged Webber's first Formula One test and is intent on guiding him into a full-time drive in Grand Prix racing.

As a further step, there is the possibility that Webber could become the regular Arrows test driver this year.

Stoddart - whose European Aviation operates 43 jet passenger aircraft - said his aim was to make Webber the next Australian in F1.

"If we get him to Formula One, his talent will do the rest," Stoddart said.

Webber is scheduled to do several days of Formula 3000 testing for Stoddart in late January and February before returing to Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix, the opening round of the Formula One World Championship, on March 12.